Early Keyboard Instruments: A Practical Guide (Hardcover)

David Rowland

ISBN 10: 052164366X / ISBN 13: 9780521643665

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001

About this Item

Hardcover. Early Keyboard Instruments covers a wide range of performance issues on keyboard instruments relevant to the music from c. 1700-c.1900. It includes descriptions of the harpsichords, clavichords, pianos and other stringed-keyboard instruments used by performers of the period as well as aspects of technique such as harpsichord registration, piano pedalling and keyboard fingering. Aspects of the notation of keyboard music are discussed, as is articulation, embellishment, tempo flexibility and rubato. A substantial chapter is devoted to case studies, illustrating how the aspects of performance discussed in the rest of the book are worked out in practice, whether playing on period instruments or on the modern piano. Early Keyboard Instruments discusses a variety of issues involved in the performance of keyboard music from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. It brings together a range of topics that have come to the fore in recent decades and forms a useful introduction to historical performance issues for the student performer or amateur, whether playing on period instruments or on the modern piano. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Early Keyboard Instruments: A Practical Guide (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052164366X
• ISBN 13: 9780521643665
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Early Keyboard Instruments covers a wide range of performance issues on keyboard instruments relevant to the music from c.1700–c.1900. It includes descriptions of the harpsichords, clavichords, pianos and other stringed-keyboard instruments used by performers of the period as well as aspects of technique such as harpsichord registration, piano pedalling and keyboard fingering. Aspects of the notation of keyboard music are discussed, as is articulation, embellishment, tempo flexibility and rubato. A substantial chapter is devoted to case studies, illustrating how the aspects of performance discussed in the rest of the book are worked out in practice, whether playing on period instruments or on the modern piano.

Review

'... it is, in fact, an excellent introduction ... I wish there had been a book like it when I was a school.' Clifford Bartlett, Early Music Review

'A significant body of information, lucid and succinct.' Early Music

'... the breadth and clarity of presentation and indexing will no doubt ensure that players of any keyboard instrument will want to have [this book] to hand for quick consultation and revision for many years to come.' The British Clavichord Society Newsletter